***What Are You Smoking, June 2024?***

[Sigmund]

Afternoon tea on a hot day with HU Deilght in a Ser Jacopo.

 

[mpjetset]

After early appointments, approaching the bottom of a GLP Stonehenge tin, in a 1998 Tinsky blast sitter.

... and soon back to the office for light Friday research before an early weekend. I'll finish the tin with a similar Ser Jacopo.

 

[wilblee]

CS Treasure Island in a Ropp Dublin. Watching barn swallows and hummingbirds mix it up.

 

[mpjetset]

Afternoon tea on a hot day with HU Deilght in a Ser Jacopo.

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Really nice pipe.

 

[telescopes]

Rustica Gepetto with PS Rounds. A nice cool morning.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Cowboy Coffee in the SMS meer.

 

[PrivatePiping]

It took a fair bit of conviction to finish that bowl of War Horse Bar I was smoking earlier, since the chemically mothball taste got pretty overwhelming by the halfway point, but finish it I did and now that I have I don't think I want to smoke War Horse Bar ever again!

With that out of the way though it's on to the next blend on my "to try" list, Gawith Hoggarth Kendal Dark. I'm sampling it in a Dr. Grabow Lark.

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I had never smoked a shag cut tobacco in a pipe before, but I really like how easy Kendal Dark is to pack, light, and keep lit outdoors on a blustery day. I can definitely see how this could be a favorite of fishermen. Being shag cut the tobacco does burn quite quickly, but stays cool and exceptionally smooth with no sinus irritation on the retrohale. In a little pipe like this Dr. Grabow Lark you'll only get a 15 or 20 minute smoke from it, but with how impressively strong Kendal Dark is in the Vitamin N department I think 15 or 20 minutes is about all I'd want.

The dark fired Virginia flavor is pleasant, but a little dirty tasting (as in, it tastes like there's a little dirt mixed in with the Virginias) and less woody or barbeque smokey than something like Old Dark Fired. I really like the mechanics and strength of this blend, but the flavor doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for. I'll have to give Dark Bird's Eye a go instead the next time I place a tobacco order, since it seems to be a similar blend with a somewhat different flavor.

I think you should start writing tobacco reviews. You have very entertaining and colorful descriptions of what you smoke. I'd be following them!

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Good morning..Ken Byron Ventures, Burley Morning in a Radice Rind. Dark roast coffee.

 

[Butter Side Down]

10 year old Penzance in this plug ugly kit pipe I made about 15 years ago and is, somewhat irritatingly, my best smoking pipe for Latakia blends by a considerable margin.

 

[umbrella001]

Union Square in a Don Carlos Canadian.

 

[PaulRVA]

HH ODF In a Ser Jacopo Picta Picasso Hawkbill
Finally some decent weather being 70’s ,Overcast and Windy with lil to no humidity. Yard work is complete
For the week!

 

[Scottmi]

Storm Front / Yorktown mix in the Imp Sitter with morning coffee. Up way to late last night watching reactions and hot takes. What a show.

 

[Scottmi]

10 year old Penzance in this plug ugly kit pipe I made about 15 years ago and is, somewhat irritatingly, my best smoking pipe for Latakia blends by a considerable margin.

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Hey man, I like it! Definitely the one to bring out when watching War of the Worlds.

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Starting with the pleasant company of Peterson Elizabethan Mixture in an Upshall P Dublin with beveled rim and pencil shank with tapered stem.

 

[Scottmi]

Union Square in a Don Carlos Canadian.
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Gorgeous grain and stain! Need to show this more often!

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

 

[umbrella001]

Gorgeous grain and stain! Need to show this more often!

Thank you! I was surprised it was graded only as a one note.

 

[AJL67]

Capstan Blue in an SMS

 

[Skink]

C&D Eight State Burley in a Chacom Montmartre Bent Apple (F3) with a mug of black coffee.

 

[didimauw]

Huddled in the tent again. So much rain in my first week of camping. Enjoying Briar Fox with the pups.